Digital wallet
In 2021, the DIGID consortium ran a pilot study on the use of digital IDs in two contexts in Kenya: informal urban settlements and rural areas. The pilot targeted people who had no form of ID and who had been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, providing them with humanitarian cash assistance. With their technical provider Gravity, KRCS created digital wallets and credentials and issued them to beneficiaries. For those without a phone, the credentials took the form of a printed QR code that could be used to withdraw cash from a financial services provider.
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Interoperability
Interoperability, as per ECHO definition, is the ability of organizations to interact towards mutually beneficial goals, involving the (secured & safe) sharing of information and knowledge between organizations, through the business processes they support, by means of exchanging data with other systems using common standards
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